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The National Autonomous Union of Secondary School Teachers (SNAES), a member of the Federation of Education and Research Unions (FESER) affiliated to EI, called attention to the need for quality teachers.

The Latvian Trade Union of Education and Science Employees (LIZDA) has organised a warning strike in front of the National Parliament building in Riga to show their rejection of the government’s budget proposal on the minimum teachers’ salary.

EI's affiliates, the Fijian Teachers’ Association (FTA) and the Fiji Teachers Union (FTU) have started to implement an Action Plan to launch their campaign linked to the EI Unite for Quality Education campaign.

The Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions(FMESU), EI’s national affiliate, has organised a joint meeting under the theme, “I have a message for the government”, at the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions’ level. The meeting was held in conjunction with the one-year EI Unite for Quality Education initiative.

EI's European region, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), held a special meeting on 23 October in Brussels. Entitled "What is needed to improve the quality of education in Europe?", it brought together trade unionists from across Europe to reflect on challenges ahead and discuss measures to improve...

The Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU), one of EI’s national affiliates, has launched its Quality Education campaign at the National Carillon in Canberra in support of the EI Unite for Quality Education initiative and World Teachers’ Day.

Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö(OAJ), one of EI’s national affiliates in Finland, has unveiled its plan to join in EI’s ‘Unite for Quality Education’ (Unite4ed) initiative.

The ETUCE Committee meeting has been held in Brussels on 23-24 October 2013. The yearly meeting of the Standing Committee for Equality has been held in conjunction with the ETUCE Committee meeting, on Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 October 2013 and has elected the new Chair and Vice-chairs of the...

Education unions in the United Kingdom have enthusiastically welcomed the recently launched Unite for Quality Education campaign. Union leaders have highlighted the timeliness of this agenda, both on a global scale and nationally in the UK.

The eve of World Teachers’ Day, Oct. 4, saw the launch of Education International’s year-long Unite for Quality Education campaign, simultaneously at two events at UNESCO in Paris and UNICEF in New York.

Teachers hold the keys to a better future for all. They inspire, challenge and empower innovative and responsible global citizens. They get children into school, keep them there and help them learn. Every day, they help to build the inclusive knowledge societies we need for tomorrow and the century ahead....

Oct 4, the eve of World Teachers’ Day, sees the launch of Education International’s Unite for Quality Education Campaign. Simultaneously held in Paris and New York, the event will be webcast live, and discussed on various social media channels.

On 4 October, on the eve of World Teachers’ Day, representatives of Education International (EI), its affiliates, and international and civil society organisations, will gather at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France to mark the launch of EI’s Global Year of Action, “Unite for Quality Education: Better Education for a...

Members of EI’s affiliate, New Zealand Education Institute (NZEI), are gathering at dawn on 5 October in Gisborne, the first place to see the sun, to celebrate World Teachers’ Day in the southern hemisphere.

With little more than 800 days left to reach the Millennium Development Goals, the education focus sharpened dramatically late last week as the UN General Assembly held a special event to review progress made.

It was the closing of a meeting here in New York, but it was a teacher union leader and EI speaker that opened the eyes of participants focusing on a simple proposition: education should be a continuing standalone goal for international development.

EI has announced a partnership with the international technology supplier, Intel. This partnership aims at improving the quality of learning and teaching tools, crucial to ensuring quality public education for all. It has also laid out a set of important principles to provide international technology suppliers with a roadmap to...

On the 4 October 2013 , EI is launching a year of action, an initiative for quality education around the world that will culminate on a World Day of Action in October 2014. EI and ETUCE invite everybody who cares about the education of our children to join forces with...